Quotes about Emotions

If sadness comes to you one day with an invitation, tell it you are committed to joy and will be faithful to it your whole life long.

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.

In the end, it doesn't matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.